by Umberto Eco · Bompiani · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845223181
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«L'isola del giorno prima» is the historical novel by Umberto Eco, published by Bompiani in paperback (476 pages, in Italian).
A young Piedmontese, Roberto de la Grive, is shipwrecked in the South Seas in 1643 and ends up on a deserted ship facing an island he cannot reach. His letters to a lady reveal duels, love affairs and his initiation into the new science, while the intrigues of Mazarin and Richelieu cross paths in a cosmos that no longer has the Earth at its center.
The work is dated October 1994 and belongs to the Letteraria collection.
For readers of historical fiction and Italian literature who can read the work in its original language.
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
